NATO / Canadian Troops in Afghanistan?

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Anybody know what battle rifle the NATO (particularly the Canadian Troops) use in Afghanistan? My bet is its some type of FN flavour in .308 calibre with a happy switch.

Being biased in favour of .30 cal rifles I have to figure it must take'em fewer shots to send the Taliban off to shake hands with Allah then an M-16. :evil:
 
.30 caliber rifles are not getting near as much use in the sandbox as the gun media makes out. Sure there are some in use but the vast majority of longarms in use by the US and Allies are 5.56.
 
Being biased in favour of .30 cal rifles I have to figure it must take'em fewer shots to send the Taliban off to shake hands with Allah then an M-16.
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The consensus among been there & done that types I work with seems to be that even a single 5.56mm round center or mass tends to sort them out just fine very, very reliably at gunfight ranges. The interest in 7.62mm is not really the heavier thump at gunfighting range but it's usefulness for longer-range shooting out past 3-500 meters.
 
CBSBYTE: Thank you. You said something that I have been wanting to for lo, these many years.

The ones I just love are the ones that say "Educate me on ______."

With the resources available today it's darn near a slam-dunk. I remember when there were about ten decent gun books in print and that was it.
 
http://world.guns.ru/assault/as44-e.htm

Canadian Assault Rifle.



By the way Canada has had another costly week in Afghanistan.


Donald McArthur, CanWest News Service

Published: Monday, September 04, 2006

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A Canadian soldier was killed and dozens wounded, five seriously, in a friendly fire incident Monday morning near the front lines of a battle where four Canadian soldiers were killed and several wounded the day before.

"An aircraft flying in support of ISAF operations accidentally engaged a Canadian position in Panjwaii at approximately 5:30 this morning, killing one soldier and wounding a number of others," said Brig.-Gen. Fraser, the Canadian commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in southern Afghanistan.

The Canadian soldiers wounded Monday were not bombed but came under fire from an airplane, believed to be an American Warthog, which is armed with rockets and high-powered machine guns. Four Canadian soldiers were killed in a friendly fire incident in April 2002 when they were bombed by an American F-16 fighter jet while they were conducting training operations.

Thirty-two Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since Canada joined the war on terror here in 2002 and 24 of those have fallen since operations moved to the volatile south in February. Glyn Berry, a diplomat, was killed in a suicide strike in Kandahar in January.


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http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...iendly_fire_060904/20060904/?hub=TorontoHome

Had to change site as the other is under change, ame agency, different article
 
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NATO does not have a standard assault rifle. NATO forces use their native weapons, whatever they may be. For Canadians, that's the Diemaco rifles. For Americans, it's US made ARs, for the British its L85s, for Germany its G36s etc etc.
 
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Gee guys - I KNOW I can do a google search - never mind the laziness.

Um, did you think I MIGHT have asked this question due to the interesting commentary that usually follws an explanation - which likely would turn out (and has) to be more interesting than a one liner explanation and drawing.

Google will give you the basics - only other human beings can augment that.
 
The answer is easy to find if you cared to do a search on the net. Please don't be lazy.
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That reply is bordering on an attack towards a fellow High Roader, by the way. I guess you never ask anyone a question without Googling the answer first? I remember a lesson my folks taught me: "If you've got nothing nice to say, keep your mouth shut." The same should apply to the 'net. If you've got nothing nice to type, keep your fingers off the keyboard.

Your fellow High Roader posed a question, as a means of finding out some info, and to possibly generate conversation. Surely, he didn't ask the question as a way of being called lazy. If you don't like the question, or the conversation, just sit it out. It's not your bandwidth, what does it matter to you if he asks a simple question? Let Oleg worry about that. As a personal friend of Oleg's, I'd wager he'd be more concerned with members calling each other lazy than he would be about a question being asked that Google might answer.

"If you don't ask the right questions, the answers don't matter." (W.S. Lind, no doubt stolen from Socrates)
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Dienekes, a lesson from your own signature: if you don't type the right search words into Google, you might have to search through a watershed of info, trying to sort it out. Just a thought.
 
Sometimes you have to do be willing to do enough work so as to be able to ask worthwhile questions in the first place.

Sort of lost my head there, saying what I thought...guess that's not very touchy feely.

BTW, yes, the Canadians use Diemaco C7s and C8s. I know firsthand because I've shot with them. Not second, third, or tenth hand info, not "opinion", not from Google, Wikipedia, THR or off a restroom wall.

Feel free to excommunicate me anytime you wish. It's not like it's a big deal.
 
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